Benoit News

Madison County Superintendent of Education Michael D. Kent said protecting his district from any proposed school consolidation will be the first priority while serving on a statewide advisory commission on the subject.

With a slow-going ditty playing in the background, Jonathan Vance looked around his bar/restaurant. Airport Grocery in Cleveland is - and always has been - a haven for gritty, honest blues in its purest form.

Tornadoes have been confirmed from severe storms on Friday in Northern Mississippi.

In the Holmes County School District, 96 percent of the student body receive a free lunch and 3 percent pay a reduced fee.

In Holmes County, where the poverty rate is three times higher than the country's, Patricia Jenkins' children get a free weekday lunch for at least nine months of the year.

Travis Satterfield, a rice and soybean producer from Benoit, Miss., who has long been a leader in a number of Delta and Mississippi agricultural organizations, will serve as the 74th president of the Delta Council in 2009-10. Satterfield, who is probably best known for his work with the Mississippi Rice Council and with the Delta Council and ...